(June 8, 2015 at 11:51 am)Jenny A Wrote: We attended Atonement Lutheran when I was in my teens. I went through confirmation classes there. For those not in the know, confirmation is a ceremony in which you confirm your baptism as a knowing adult. The Catholics do it early during grade school. The Lutherans do it in the mid teens.
The age of discretion is typically uniform around the age of seven, coinciding with First Communion. There is actually variability in the timing of the confirmation ritual since individual diocese can dictate when this happens and what requirements are to be met. I was not allowed to be confirmed until at least the 8th grade and had to complete Catechism. I believe only a handful of U.S. diocese have instituted confirmation at a younger age.
